Shirin Ghaffary
Former Senior Correspondent
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Legal experts say the executive order is largely toothless — but it could set a symbolic precedent about government censorship of the internet.
Even if Trump’s executive order tries to shut down social media companies, it would face an immediate court battle.
After the president tweeted misleading information about mail-in ballots, Twitter applied a warning label to Trump’s tweets for the first time.
The social media giant is letting its employees request to permanently work from home.
In the time of coronavirus, essential workers can hold effective protests even without huge attendance.
The company says it’s seeing less money coming in from advertisers.
The company says it’s more widely enforcing rules around mass emails as part of a routine audit. Some employees see it as an attack on worker organizing.
Employees told Recode they believe Amazon deleted the event to try to prevent corporate and warehouse workers from pushing for more rights.
The US is rolling out digital contact tracing. How has it been working in other countries?
The company says it’s only taking down event pages in states where protests break social distancing rules.